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Sports Illustrated has released a top 50 list of the highest paid athletes in America. This includes salary and endorsements. Hey, they should get together with Golf Digest since they love doing lists like that.

Anyway, Tiger Woods ($99.7 million) and Phil Mickelson ($52.9 million) are the top two highest paid athletes! Tiger has been #1 for six straight years. Golf wins over football, basketball and baseball! And the careers are so much longer. If I only could have taken up the sport earlier than 1990.

Here’s a link to the SI article but be careful. The popup ads are so pervasive they’ll almost jump out of your monitor and bash you in the head with a 9-iron. The ads are so bad in fact, that I couldn’t even get page four to load because they were taking so long to load. So I bailed.

Looking at these salaries and endorsements is interesting. Golf is the only “sport” other than Nascar where the “athlete” earns more in endorsements than in salary.

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We’re 2/3 of the way done with the fantasy season! Fore Heaven has won the Spring leg of HOG Space 2009 Fantasy golf and wins a pair of VedaloHD sunglasses! Week 19: Deadly Eight Iron Week 20: Cal Birdies Week 21: Bogeys ‘n Better Week 22: Grass On The Green Week 23: Apollo Kid & Wiggle Waggle Week 24: Big Hittin’ Lamas Winners contact me to claim prizes!	PRIMARY SPONSORS (click now and thank ‘em!)
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There were some great comments posted in June, ranging in subjects from Tiger Woods, Michelle Wie to killiig geese and Chris Berman’s awful golf announcing in the US OPEN.

It was tough to pick three winners so I had to do a tiebreaker by seeing who had the best 2nd round comment.

“Old Man Par” and “ISBPD” won with their comments regarding Chris Berman’s announcing and “Alan” won for his Michelle Wie comments.  You three brilliant comment authors win a Blu-Ray disc of Disney’s “The Greatest Game Ever Played” courtesy of Walt Disney Studios Home Entertainment.  Thanks!

ISBPD (on Berman):

If Berman worked in an office, he’d be the guy who’s desk is situated near the photo copier…as you approach to make copies he’d say: “Here comes the Dave-ster, mak-ing cop-ies. The Dave-ster! Dave-a-rino! Mak-ing copies!” You know…like the Rob Schneiter character (Rich) from a Saturday Night Live sketch from many years ago. Everyone is truely annoyed by him, but no one wants to be the mean guy and tell him he is being such a douche nozzle (yes, it is worse than being just a douche bag). Well Media Guru is the office mean guy it would seem!

Old Man Par (on Berman):

I was thinking about writing about the same thing — Berman has no business covering golf, especially a major. He’s like the loud drunk at the bar who thinks he knows it all (but doesn’t) and thinks he’s hilarious when he’s really tedious and annoying. You wish he’d go home so you could enjoy yourself, but he just gets worse and worse.

And don’t forget “the Hansen brothers” — another gem.

Oh, brother. Thank goodness NBC takes over tomorrow.

Alan (on Wie):

“… has a lot of talent with a golf club, she’s yet to fulfill her promise in any meaningful way whatsoever.”

Which is a true statement of nearly every Nationwide player and club pro in the world, and I would think it’s the nine inches ‘tween the ears that make the difference.

I suppose they were hoping for the female Tiger Woods, not realizing that they just had her, and that her name was Annika Sorenstam.

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Just got an email from one of my long time golf buddies, Dave.  He and my other golf buddy Dan were playing last night.  They had some issues with a goose.  I’ll just post the whole email here:

Get this…Dan & I start playing front 9 @ 7:15 pm Sat.

At Dan’s 2nd shot, he hits a screaming, skulled, grounder into the neck of a goose (that was laying down amongst about 15 geese).  Immediately, we can see the neck is broken, but the goose isn’t dead.  In an effort to be humane, Dan tries to kill it off by wringing its neck, but no dice, it will not die.  I take my soaked golf towel and wrap it around the goose’s mouth and nostrils to smother/suffocate it, but no dice again, it won’t die.  While I am smothering it, Dan takes out a pocket knife and cuts it’s head off. It died.  We then brought the goose to the area of the foxes den on #1 so they could have an easy meal.

Lots of guys can hunt with guns.  Some guys hunt with archery.  Dan beats ‘em all.  He can hunt with hybrids.

FYI, Dan was pretty upset that he killed a goose.  I was fine with it…Less goose crap to step in now.

I’m with Dave.  Less goose crap is good.

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Man has Chris Berman’s “funny name” announcing thing gotten old.  The ship has sailed.  The novelty has worn off…

“Ground control to major Toms” as in David Toms.  Really funny.  Haha.

Can’t wait to hear Chris address Roger Maltbe as “Roger Chocolate Maltbe”… not.

Oh wait, the Berman comedy hour continues:  “We’ve heard of a rescue club.  Was that a fescue club?”  Oh man I may throw up in my mouth.

David “Do Val”

A moment ago Mr. Rumblin’ Bumblin’ Stumblin’ was pronouncing David Duval’s name wrong.  Then he got it right as someone must have told him in his headphones how to pronounce it.

OMG it continues…

“Ernie is shankin’ his head.”

“He cooked his putt too far.”  Did he mean “he over-cooked his putt”???

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For about a year or so I’ve been pals with Debbie Dahmer (DD) from Big Break III.  She’s super cool and puts on FUNdraisers for charity with her “Pros Fore Charity” company.

They don’t call Debbie “DD” because of her initials.  They call her DD because she’s, ahem, “well fortified in the chest area.”  That in mind, one fun thing Deb does in her tournaments is put DD sized bras on men and see if they can out drive her.  Well, since DD out drove me about 7 times out of 10 when we played golf in Palm Springs last year when I didn’t have bra on, they have no chance.  I tried a shot with the DD’s on (I’ll dig up a pic), and I sliced the crap out of it.

Anyway, today is DD’s birthday so I’m sending my best wishes to her and thanks for the lesson in Palm Springs.  Deb is in town, and I’ll be saying hello to her tomorrow night!

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Thanks to 4Checker once again for this gem.  Everyone has seen the warning sign at Bethpage Black but how about the sign at Bushwood Black?

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Congrats to my pal Dave the Orlando Golf Blogger.  He got some major (pun intended) air time on Orlando TV regarding some golf deals for Father’s day.

Congrats Dave.

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